How to plant sweet potatoes for slips

Thank you for sharing your method !

Ive never seen this method, thanks brother!

Hi can u grow them from supermarket potatoes?

Thank you wise man.

I want to thank you for this video, I have been planting sweet potatoes for 2 years, I started my slips inside in my green house from sprouted sweet potatoes then take the slip and put in a jar of water till the roots are big then plant them in the middle of June, it is the second week of October and I will be harvesting the sweet potatoes by the end of October before the first frost, I was to ancy last year and didnt get a good crop, I am learning more about planting and the way you are doing it is the way I think I want to do it next year but plantmy tubularsin deep containers in my green house instead of outside. My vines have grown so long that they grew outside the fence into the corn field, I hope thats a good sign. Thank you for your video it was very helpful.

Thank you soooo much for this! I want to grow sweet potatoes but I could not figure out how! Now I get it! You gotta get that vine off the little tader and replant that! You and Wanda have been such a blessing to me. Your knowledge and welcoming spirit is just heaven sent. I'm so glad God called y'all to make these videos! (I'm even actually chatting a little in the room where I just watched before. ☺️) Thank you both so much! God Bless! ✝

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At timepoint 1:25 you say the potatoes with the slips starting had been in the cellar since the summer of the previous year. The same kind of thing happened here in Texas. I had bought some potatoes about Thanksgiving/Holloween time (2015) and left one in the drawer in a cool room. It refused to sprout some tiny bumps that later grew to be slips until the room warmed up in the spring. I cut the end of the potato off that had the slips growing out of it plus about a half inch of potato and half planted this stub end in a small pot of soil. Now (June 2016) the slips are growing about 10" tall and I'm getting ready to separate them from the stub and to give them their own water jar or their own soil to grow a mess of roots. I heard that the new roots on the slips are where the new sweet potatoes will take form. I always presumed that growing these would be easy and simple. I have learned something new.

Danny I live in Central Florida. You have talked about the fire ants in the south. What are you using in your garden for ants. These are not fire ants, they are just dang ants. I try to do everything organic, what can I use. They are after my sweet potato plants and yes some of my onions I had to pull today. It is so dry, probably one big problem. I trimmed my crape myrtle trees yesterday and have some good limbs for your sweet potato planting fork. That is the best thing I have found for my back in years. Thanks for sharing. You two make the sweetest couple, soul mates. I am alone right now, have been for 20 years, I will find my soul mate one of these days, too. Another thank you for sharing...

Get out your money, make a bank loan. LOL...I had to come back and report on your potato slips. Those things are worth gold. You have a hard time buying commercially grown sweet potato slips, even in farm country the farmers co-ops are getting to be a thing of the past. A so called small farm about 45 miles from me selling produce, hand gathered seeds, things that are advertised as organic. Well here is the GOLD in sweet potatoes, slips are 4 for $5.00, yes $1.25 each, you must pick them up on certain days. I am so shocked..thank goodness Deep South Homestead is showing younger or newbies how to grow their own slips.... $1.25 for one small slip...This shows us we must teach folks how to grow their food or when the tax money runs out, we will be like other countries where folks actually starve.

Oh now I see the difference you just explained that.

So I can not plant the sweet potatoes themselves to get sweet potatoes? I have to wait for the culls? Right? Thank you so much I love all your videos, you do a great job.

Wish I had some of that rich , fertile soil you got there. I'm using compost and regular potting soil. My second attempt at sweet potatoes this spring.

Great info, how far in the deep south are you? I'm also in the south, always wanted a garden for Years. I don't have a green thumb, & in a time such as now, I need All The Help for future planting; so I've subscribed to your youtube channel, to glean More of your work , I'll Keep watching for more video's too, Thanks Mr.Deep South Homestead :-)

Thank you for sharing your method of growing sweet potatoes. I have never grown sweet potatoes before so I decided to get on YouTube and find out how they are grown. I was quite surprised that it wasn't anything like potatoes! But I do love to learn and I appreciate that people take the time to share there experiences with others such as myself.

Hi once more,
Thank you for your communication which was most helpful, I will search here for the Vardaman,
however, if unable to find a stockist here, do you know if this kind of product is allowed to be exported
from the states?
Regards,
Maureen

Hi there,
I am from the South East of England, I think you are good with your instructions as they are in detail and I have enjoyed watching
your video on planting sweet potatoes, thank you so much.
I was wondering how I could grow sweet potatoes by some way of providing more heat
under glass panes as here we do not get so warm, what do you think would they grow with less sun? also please tell me would
these sweet potatoes like horse manure or what is best for them in way of fertilizer and can these
be grown in earth that has already grown normal potatoes as I believe sweet potatoes are not a true
'ordinary' potatoes: The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato (Solanum tuberosum) and does not belong to the nightshade family.
So, I guess one could grow this in soil previously used for the nightshade family.
Is there any variety of sweet potatoes that grows in slightly less heat just as well, I wonder?
What do you consider your soil type is where you are growing please?
Look forward to hearing from you and thanking you in anticipation of same.
Kind regards, Maureen Erdwin

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

This is a great idea. I'm starting the slips in water in January. No luck. Here is Texas, we didn't have a icy winter. However, it was about 50 degrees.....The sweet potato loves heat. I will do it your way from now on!!!!!Thanks so much for showing us this video!I got to say I couldn't get any slips at any feed store! I got potato from the grocery store and the organic still didn't work! Thanks again for showing your method!

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